My Father's Son

A Compelling Memoir Of Fathers Sons And The Brooklyn Streets. Every Family Has Secrets. Ours Were Just Bigger Than Others. “My Earliest Memory Is Of A Gun.” That Gun Was In His Father’S Hand – And It Was Pointed At His Mother’S Head. John Davis Grew Up In The 1970S And ‘80S On The Rough Streets Of Brooklyn A Place Where No One Thought Twice When Parents Smacked Around Their Kids—Or Each Other. At The Center Of The Tumultuous Neighborhood And John’S World Was His Larger-Than-Life Father Roberto. The Argentinean Butcher And Kingpin Drug Dealer Was A Sadistic Bully Whose Mercurial Temper Left A Trail Of Tears And Chaos Across His Family. John In Particular Seemed To Bear The Brunt Of Roberto’S Wildly Swinging Moods. Any Wrong Word Could Cause An Explosion. Every Knock On The Door Might Be One Of Roberto’S Enemies Or The Police. In His Publishing Debut Davis Recounts How He Spent His Childhood In Constant Terror And His Teen Years Learning To Fight Back. But It Was Much Later As An Adult That He Learned The Most Shocking Thing Of All About His Father His Past And Himself. Told With Raw Honesty And Deep Emotion My Father’S Son Is A Memoir Of Fear Abuse Survival And Identity.